Dyson’s new superskinny stick vac is as thin as its hair dryer

Dyson’s caller skinny PencilVac looks similar a broom. | Image: Dyson

Dyson has announced what it’s claiming is the “world’s slimmest vacuum cleaner.” At archetypal glance, its caller PencilVac looks similar a broom alternatively than a vacuum due to the fact that the battery, motor, and electronics are each integrated into a bladed grip that’s conscionable 38mm successful diameter — the aforesaid thickness arsenic Dyson’s Supersonic r hairsbreadth dryer. It weighs successful astatine conscionable nether 4 pounds and is powered by the company’s smallest and fastest vacuum centrifugal yet.

The PencilVac is designed to beryllium a replacement for the slim Dyson Omni-glide, which launched successful 2021 with a cleaning caput that utilized 2 spinning brushes truthful it could suck up particulate and ungraded successful aggregate directions. The caller PencilVac is not lone slimmer and lighter than the Omni-glide, it uses 4 spinning brushwood bars that Dyson calls Fluffycones.

As the sanction implies, the Fluffycones each diagnostic a conical plan that causes agelong hairs to descent down to the constrictive extremity of each brushwood and autumn disconnected truthful they tin beryllium sucked up alternatively of getting tangled up astir the brushes. The Fluffycones somewhat protrude astatine the sides for amended borderline cleaning, and are paired with greenish LED lights (instead of the lasers that Dyson’s different vacuums use) that illuminate particulate and debris truthful you tin spot erstwhile floors person been decently cleaned.

Other innovations Dyson is introducing with the PencilVac see a centrifugal that’s conscionable 28mm successful diameter but spins astatine 140,000RPM to make 55AW of suction, and a caller two-stage particulate filtration strategy that prevents clogging and show nonaccomplishment arsenic the vac fills up. Given its size, the PencilVac has a smaller particulate bin than Dyson’s different cleaners, but uses a caller plan that compresses particulate arsenic it’s removed from the airflow to assistance maximize however overmuch ungraded the bin tin hold.

The PencilVac magnetically connects to a level dock for charging and storage, and features a tiny LCD surface that shows the cleaning mode and an estimation of however agelong earlier the artillery dies. It’s besides Dyson’s archetypal vacuum to link to the MyDyson mobile app, which offers entree to further settings, alerts for erstwhile the filter needs to beryllium cleaned, and step-by-step attraction instructions.

The vacuum’s slim plan does travel with immoderate trade-offs erstwhile compared to the company’s larger models. Its cleaning caput is designed for usage connected hard floors, not carpeting, and portion it tin beryllium swapped with alternate attachments similar a furnishings and crevice tool, it doesn’t person to a shorter handheld vac. Runtime is besides constricted to conscionable 30 minutes of cleaning astatine its lowest powerfulness setting, but its artillery is swappable and Dyson volition merchantability further ones to widen however agelong you tin clean.

Dyson hasn’t revealed pricing details yet, and portion the PencilVac volition motorboat successful Japan aboriginal this year, it won’t beryllium disposable successful the US until 2026.